PROFESSIONAL HOPES AND GOALS

• One hope that you have when you think about working with children and families who comes from diverse backgrounds.

I hope to work with the family with a kind heart, with a enough understanding about their cultural with respect in effort to better help the growth of their child. We can build a relationship that is positive and strong without any bias to prove to the children that people do respect all human being even when they comes from different time and places.

• One goal you would like to set for the early childhood field related to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice.

That I make a difference in a child and their family life about diversity. That I may teach a group of children to embrace their cultural and be the person they are not a person someone tell them they should be. To make a child proud about their identity and not be a shame of who they are. To help prepare them to stand up for what is right and to teach them that they are to be treated with respect from all. To help change how they look at people and not to be judgmental towards things that may appear different or people that is different from them.

• A brief note of thanks to your colleagues.

I would like to thank all my colleagues, because of you I have gain much respect and knowledge  from each of you by your comments, questions, and weekly posting of discussion questions and blog entries. I would like to wish you the best in life and I know you will make a different in some child's life.
I WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

THE PERSONAL SIDE OF BIAS, PREJUDICE, AND OPPRESSION

Last week the Mayor from Troy, Michigan posted a hateful remark about gays on her face book page. She used slur to voice her opinion about the state of New York legalized gay marriage. The media was yelling at her asking her to stand down from her current position as mayor.

Being a politician figure you have to respect everyone. You have to uphold an ethic code about people that may have voted for you. You no longer have the right to voice your personal opinions about anyone especially in a derogatory way.

At first when I heard part of the story I thought she just posted on her face book page that she did not agree to gay marriages, at that time I felt that people were hard on her because she voiced her personal feelings about gay marriages, but later when I found out she said things in a hateful way I could not believe she could have done something so foul and had the nerve to voice it to millions by face book like she did not know that being a mayor she is representing many gays that live in Michigan and if you can accept their votes then as a mayor you are saying you can accept how they choose to live their life.

PRACTICING AWARENESS OF MICROAGGRESSIONS

• Describe at least one example of a micro aggression which you detected this week or remember from another time. In which context did the micro aggression happen? What did you think and feel when you observed the microaggression or when you found yourself as the target of a microaggression?

It is funny that this assignment came this week when I did something that is consider as being microaggression toward someone. This week I had said something out the way to my male co-worker. Every day he comes to work and say something about what a woman suppose to do. Mind you he live with a women that he has no intentions of marrying, but always saying what she has to do to keep him happy.  In the same breathe he speaks about many other women that he is seeing or messing around with. So I said without thinking you are what us real women consider as a dog in a joking matter but really in the back of my head i was thinking this. This is wrong because I displayed that I was biases also.

• In what ways did your observation experiences this week affect your perception of the effects of discrimination, prejudice, and/or stereotypes on people.

I see that even being unintentional microaggression toward someone it can be done without thought. Many people do not think before speaking, what comes in comes right out without going through a thinking process. So I see many people not thinking  how they effect people with what they say or do.

PERSPECTIVES ON DIVERSITY AND CULTURE

I asked three co-worker about their definition of culture and diversity. The response were basically on the same page each  felt that the meaning of culture  is all about  traditional. traditionals music, social norms of family, family traditions, values and morals that goes with different cultures. One co-worker that has a dual citizenship with United States and Canada and in her opinion diversity is now to her described as being a positive thing. Diversity is a way of describing working together for one common goal. In Montreal, Canada which is the largest city province of Quebec is all multiculture.

• The aspects of culture and diversity  that I have learn from this course is that I never knew how impotant learning about others culture would have an impact on my teacher career.

MY FAMILY CULTURE

      A description of the three items you would choose

1.      Three family pictures one from the day I got married which included my mom, dad, sibling and their spouses and their children. The second on with me, my husband and my new born son. A large picture of my son.

2.      My wedding ring

3.      My son favorite toy

      How would you explain to others what each of these items means to you

My pictures hold the vision memories for me and my heart holds the true meanings to me. My wedding ring to represent the responsibilities I have as a wife and mother.  The reason I would take my son favorite toy to give him comfort with something that is familiar to me.

      Your feelings if, upon arrival, you were told that you could only keep one personal item and have to give up the other  two items you brought with you

I would probably be angry, upset, and mad. But after a while I would look at it as material things and thank the Lord that we are alive and hold the pictures, and wedding ring as a memory that I keep in heart, but I would keep my son favorite toy because he do not know about holding memories.

      Any insights you gained about yourself, your family culture, diversity, and/or cultural differences in general as a result of this exercise.

This exercise just made me thinks that we have no idea why people have to relocate, or want to live in different countries. I know I would be scared to be in the mist of people that might not accept me or do not understand me. 

WHEN I THINK OF RESEARCH...

From this class EDUC 6163 Building Research Competencies I have learned so much information I hope I can remember everything because everything I learned will help me with my research. I knew there is a format each researcher would have to follow but it never occurred to me just how many designs and components you would have to incorporate in your paper in order for you to have a great paper.

My way of doing a research has changed dramatic after this course. If I never had token this class my research paper would have been a failure. My preparation and the different angles would have been done incorrectly.

I learn in just week one that my first topic would have took me over year just to get in touch with all the people involved. I would not have known where to start in doing a research paper on “Can Michigan provide public Child Care for the people who lives in Michigan” I would’ve have to talk to people in the Governs office. I also learned about Ethical consideration for my topic, learning what a hypothesis statement is, and I also learned about different design such as qualitative and quantitative you can follow for your research.

The challenges I encountered are understand in depth about each step it takes to do a great research. I had to look on the website at different site to get a better understanding, and meaning of each designs.

I am learning that early childhood professional entails a lot of learning, rules, goals and information that is needed in order to be a great teacher.

I also want to take the time to thank all my colleagues for your input on my discussion question, giving me helpful feedback and giving me the opportunities to view your blogs and your discussion questions answer, ideas and point views. Thank You so Much and I wishes the best to ALL.

Research Around the World

The international early childhood research I chose  was Early Childhood Australia.

Some of their research topics are:

• Respecting Diversity: Articulating  early childhood practice
•  Learning and teaching through play
•  The Early Years Learning Framework: Building confident learners
•  Managing change with infants and young children
•  Young children as active learners
• Treasures and Collections: A touch of magic in early years

Some facts/insights I received from exploring this international early childhood website is the majority of there research is done on early childhood. For futher research they are going to explore how to foster generative working relationships more systematically among bureaucrats, academics and the early childhood sector to improve policies. (EYLF 2009)
I found this website to have an lot of information that is needed. I can use the researches that they have listed to help me with my research. This is a positive organization that gear to helping children in Australia. They also have program to help the parents.

http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/